The Best Strawberry & Cream Rhubarb Cake

Have you ever wondered what to do with the beautiful rhubarb you have been growing in your garden? Or you come across some beautiful stalks at the farmers market and just want to try them? If so, then rhubarb cake is the first recipe you should make.

What is Rhubarb

Rhubarb is a super easy plant to grow and once established will come back year after year. As a result of its fast, hardy growth it is quite hard to remove completely after a few years. Rhubarb makes a great perennial for any garden. It has great big leaves, fun for children to play with. The stalks are tart, sour and delicious in cakes and crumbles.

Strawberries are a great perennial ground berry that has a sweet, tart, red flesh. Strawberries are used in many different sweet recipes and pair beautifully with rhubarb. The beautiful red fruits together make this a very pretty cake. Strawberries can be grown in containers and will even grow runners to propagate themselves into a new strawberry plant.

Rhubarb Cake

This rhubarb cake is sweet and tangy and irresistible. And the best part is it’s super easy. You can watch the entire process on our YouTube channel.

Start by chopping your rhubarb stalks into small pieces about 1/4 inch and put them in a medium size bowl roughly chop your strawberries add that and 1 1/2 cup sugar to the rhubarb. Stir making sure to cover all the fruit with sugar.

Meanwhile whip up your favorite cake batter either homemade or box mix in a second bowl. Place the batter in a 9×5 pan like this beautiful one from Staub.

Now sprinkle your rhubarb strawberry mix on top of your cake batter. Make sure to spread the fruit evenly all over.

Make it Rich

Pour two cups of heavy cream over the top of the cake batter making sure to cover the entire cake.

Place in a 350F over for half an hour. Test the middle of the cake to see if it is firm not jiggly. Because of the ooey gooey goodness at the bottom of this cake the toothpick test doesn’t work so instead press your finger gently on the middle of the cake and see if the top part jiggles.

Let cool and serve with whipped cream or ice cream. Enjoy! This is one of my favorite cakes. I make it every spring.